No smoking is one of the many rules listed on signs at Smale Riverfront Park on Mehring Way near the downtown Cincinnati riverfront.

Written by

Steven Rosen
| srosen@enquirer.com

Something new is happening here - in Cincinnati and all Ohio - in the movement to limit tobacco use in public and thus reduce the cancer deaths, as well as health-care expenses that it causes.

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be 226,160 new cases of lung cancer this year nationally, and 160,340 deaths from it. Tobacco use is the source of 30 percent of all cancer deaths and 80 percent of all lung-cancer deaths.

Also this year, some 3,400 non-smoking adults will die of lung cancer from second-hand smoke, which also will kill 46,000 non-smokers from heart disease. ...